Description
In a voice that is urgent, Howard Altmann asks the world to be patient with all that it cannot hear. Poet John Ashberry calls Altmann's interrogations and his hypnotic, mysterious and dreamlike poems 'as essential as a glass of water'.
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About the Author
Howard Altmann lives in New York City but was born and raised in Montreal where he graduated from McGill. He received his MBA from Stanford University and was Senior VP of W.P. Carey & Co, a boutique real estate investment company. He has taught poetry at a women's prison in Manhattan. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and others.
Reviews
"Howard Altmann interrogates the sky, the light, the world, about their intentions. If he seldom finds reassuring answers, he finds something better: 'When all that consoled consoles no longer / loneliness finds a room inside the one it knows.' These poems are as essential as a glass of water"--John Ashbery. Poems from IN THIS HOUSE have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Open City. "Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines 'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art."--Dennis Nurkse
Book Information
ISBN 9781933527338
Author Howard Altmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 81
Imprint Turtle Point Press
Publisher Turtle Point Press
Weight(grams) 165g
Co-op available Advance reader copies American Poet, Poetry Galley box Readings in New York, Washington, DC, L.A., SF Bay Area, Portland, Montreal
About the Author
Howard Altmann lives in New York City but was born and raised in Montreal where he graduated from McGill. He received his MBA from Stanford University and was Senior VP of W.P. Carey & Co, a boutique real estate investment company. He has taught poetry at a women's prison in Manhattan. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and others.
Reviews
"Howard Altmann interrogates the sky, the light, the world, about their intentions. If he seldom finds reassuring answers, he finds something better: 'When all that consoled consoles no longer / loneliness finds a room inside the one it knows.' These poems are as essential as a glass of water"--John Ashbery. Poems from IN THIS HOUSE have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Open City. "Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines 'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art."--Dennis Nurkse
Book Information
ISBN 9781933527338
Author Howard Altmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 81
Imprint Turtle Point Press
Publisher Turtle Point Press
Weight(grams) 165g
